Drop D

Like the alternate tuning equivalent of missionary sex, drop D is the first thing that everyone tries, mainly because it’s dead simple and nothing gets snapped.

Dropping that low string a full step has given a seismic low- end toll to everything from RATM’s Killing In The Name to Nirvana’s Heart-Shaped Box, and few sensations in life are more satisfying than battering on a one-finger barre.